Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-07-23
THE PRINCESS PRIVATE eAIRY
At sXnd-I-;.ham Hall, the Country Home
 of tI,o Prince of Wales.

of tho Prince of Wales.
 The dairy proper, where the princess makes thick, yellow cream turn into ira grant butter through the medium of dainty silver churn, has also much to in- terest the visitor The walls are covered with tiles presented to the prince, and which he had placed here as surprise for his royal dairymaid. These tiles were made in Bombay and are of peculiar peacock blue, in which the rose, the sham- rock, the thistle and the motto ''lch Dien' are inseniOusly intertwined
 Round the room runs a white marble counter covered with silver pans porcelain lined and bearing the plumes and prlnce's initials. These were filed with cream coated milk from the sweet breathed AL derneys near by.
 Broad bracket shelves of marble held numerous cows, bullOcks and calves or different sizes and every imaginable ma terial, including Italian and Par1sian marble alabaster, china, terra eotta and silver, all gifts. A long milk jug, painted by the Princess Louise to match the h. dian tiling, stood in one corner, and oppO- site the door was the mounted head Ot the princess pet Alderney, with a silver plate recording her virtues and the number or prizes she had won aJ shOWs-
 On a marble table stood simple gilt and white china tea set and pie of nap kins marked with the royal stamp. lhls for the benefit of stray visitors from the hall who wanted drink of fresh laiik had a drink myself, and as there Is no place nearer than three miles where one can get refrslhments, 1t tasted Fa-t-cU- larly gaOd-
 In tho adjoining room, neatly tiled rom floor to ceiling, the butter for the hall is made. and when the family are in London 1t Is sent up fresh every morning. The dav's suDply was laid out on white plat ters previous tO being packed, and very tempting it looked. and very delicious It tasted. It was made up in little pats and scrolls. strawberries and balls, all ready for the table With an air of pride Dame Barber said: of you look here, mum, pointing to a dish on one side, you'll see his highness'; over and particular l nave to be about it; not grain of salt to go lni only a taste like in the cream, and the pats tc. be just so thick, and not as big round as the Other.'
 I looked at Albert Edwards pats with interest. Yes, they were the size of half dollar, the thickness of three, and bore in rich butter relief either the crown the coat of arms, or the three feathers or his royal highness. It almost worried me to think of the prince at every meal in- gulfng his coat of arms, feeling his crown melt in his mouth; and would the feathers by any possibility tickle his noble throat as they glided down, l wondered
 With the butter packed in shallow bas- kets or hampers, go little pails of cream and milk. the pails furnished pewter with brass trimmings and coat of arms, and quantities of fruit and produce from the Kitchen garden.
 Docs the princess make butter often v I asked before leaving the pretty dairy, in which the mingled OdOr of blOssOminS flowers and fresh butter vied with any scent Rimmel can produce.
 "Lor', num- answered the plump guardian of the place, ''her 'ighness used to come reg'lar, and she'd churn away till the red flew up in her cheeks like, try ing to make the butter come, and she would not let me lay hand to it; but this year she was that tool: up with skatin', which was uncomnroa good, that she only came in twice or three times to the butter room But her hiGhness came in nigh every day when she'd been having Q trot about the park or to the village to take cup of tea with the ladies, and then she d send the lad for strawberries and a loaf as well Mrs. Robert P. Porter in Phil adelphia Press.